Subject: Colemanballs (Page 21)

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win.

Gary always weighed up his options, especially when he had no choice.

English football player & manager

Here they come, every color of the rainbow: black, white, brown.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I watched the game, and I saw an awful lot of it.

British football player

The last player to score a hat trick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final.

English football coach

They’ll perhaps finish in the top three; I can’t see them finishing any higher.

English football player, coach & manager

Newcastle, of course, unbeaten in their last five wins…

English football player & commentator

It was really difficult for us, playing in the midday sun with that three o'clock kick-off.

professional football player

Gary Neville says that Porto are a bunch of girls who go down too easily.

Danish football player

Until we’re out of the Champions’ League we’re still in it.

British football commentator

At the end of the day, the Arsenal fans demand that we put eleven players on the pitch.

Ronaldo is always very close to being onside or offside.

England football player

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some. Or occasionally lose.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related.

Irish sportscaster

In terms of the Richter Scale this defeat was a force eight gale.

We didn’t underestimate them – they were a lot better than we thought.

British football commentator

It’s like a toaster, the ref’s shirt pocket… every time there’s a tackle, up pops a yellow card; I’m talking metaphysically now of course.

English former football player & manager

And so no the fair, long hair of Adrian Heath has been thrown into action.

British commentator

Spurs, one of the in-form teams of the moment with successive wins are almost as impressive as Queens Park Rangers with five.

British football player

You’re always going to be struggling if you haven’t got a left foot.

English football player & analyst

He’s got his legs back, of course, or his leg – he’s always had one but now he’s got two.

British football commentator